Switzerland

Official Name
Switzerland
ISO2 Code
CH
ISO3 Code
CHE
Longitude
47 00 N
Latitude
8 00 E
Geolocation
POINT (8 47)
Attended Meeting
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

No Participation

Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • CHF 230,000 for Preparatory Activities and Adviser Fees
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.2 "Empowering Migrants and Diaspora to Contribute to Development"
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.2 "Policy and Institutional Coherence on Migration and Development within Government"
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • Euro 31,250 for Assistance in translation costs
  • In kind contributions: International Advisor secondment 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Reintegration and circular migration - effective for development?" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.1 "Policy and Institutional Coherence - Latest Data and Research Findings" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • Switzerland contributed to the 2010 GFMD budget. 
RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.1 "Assessing the impact of migration on the economic and social development and addressing its cause-effect relationship"
  • Team Member in RT 3.2 "Assessing the relevance and impact of climate change on migration and development" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Financial Contribution
  • Switzerland hosted the GFMD Summit 2011
  • CHF 141,640 for the GFMD assessment exercise 
  • CHF 175,000 for advisory services 
  • CHF 41,650 for preparatory meetings
  • CHF 71,710 for the Platform for Partnerships
  • USD 236,000 for the GFMD Concluding Debate
RT Participation
  • Team Member in Cluster I "Labour Mobility and Development"
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.1 "Engaging the Private Sector in Labour Market Planning"
  • Team Member in Cluster II "Addressing Irregular Migration through Coherent Migration and Development Strategies"
  • Team Member in Cluster III "Tools for Evidence-based Migration and Development Policies"
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.2 "Impact Assessments of Migration and Development Policies"
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Co-Chair in Thematic Meeting on "Markets for Migration and Development (M4MD): Trade and Labour Mobility Linkages - Prospects for Development" on 13-15 September 2011 in Berne, Switzerland.
- Co-Chair in Thematic Meeting on "From Evidence to Action - Facilitating Regional Regular Labour Migration for Development" on 17-18 October 2011 in Abuja, Nigeria.
- Co-Chair in Thematic Meeting on "Addressing Irregular Migration through Coherent Migration and Development Strategies" on 13-14 October 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • Human Security Division gave USD 61,866 for Organizational expenses 
  • Human Security Division gave USD 61,866 for GFMD Support Unit
  • Human Security Division gave CHF 145,000 for Advisory Fees
  • Swiss Development Cooperation Agency gave USD 181,958 as a contribution to the GFMD 2012 Civil Society Process
  • The Federal Office of Migration have CHF 100,000 for the GFMD Support Unit 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1 "Beyond-the-Border Skills and Jobs for Human Development"
  • Team Member in RT 1.2 "Supporting Migrants and Diaspora as Agents of Socioeconomic Change"
  • Co-Chair in RT 2.1 "Supporting National Development through Migration Mainstreaming Processes, Extended Migration Progiles and Poverty Reduction Strategies" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Addressing South-South Migration and Development Policies"
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • USD 80,000 in August 2013
  • CHF 100,000 (USD 107,527) in August 2013
  • USD 67,800 in February 2014
  • USD 20,000 in May 2014
  • USD 80,000 in September 2013
RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.1 "Operationalizing mainstraming and coherence in migration and development policies"
  • Rapporteur in RT 1.2 "Framing migration for the MDGs and the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda"
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Facilitating positive development impacts of diaspora engagement in skills transfer, investments and trade between countries of residence and origin"
  • Team Member in RT 3.1 "Empowering migrants, their households and communities for improved protection of rights and social development outcomes" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Operationalizing Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" on 22 May 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • CHF 100,000 (USD 103, 199) in December 2014 for the GFMD Support Unit
  • USD 70,000 in December 2014 non-earmarked 
  • EUR 39,600 (USD 43,137) in January 2015 for the GFMD Support Unit (PfP) 
  • USD 70,000 in January 2015 for Research and Consultancy 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.2 "Reducing the human and financial costs of international migration, particularly labor migration: Cooperative approaches to fair recruitment practices and lower remittance fees"
  • Team Member in RT 2.1 "Mainstreaming migration into planning at the sectoral level"
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Making migration work post-2015: implementing the SDGs"
  • Team Member in RT 3.1 "Enhancing human development and human security for forced migrants, who are compelled to cross international borders, through international cooperation on labor market access, educational opportunity, family reunification, and other avenus of mobility"
  • Team Member in RT 3.2 "Private sector-government partnerships to support migrant/diaspora entrepreneurship and job creation, with a focus on small and medium entreprises"
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Recognizing the contributions of women migrants to economic and social development in countries of origin and destination and addressing their specific needs, particularly concerning respect for their human rights" on 8 September 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • USD 120,000 for the GFMD Support Unit
  • USD 257,928 for consultancy / Advisory services 
  • CHF 93, 092 (USD 93,900) for Coordination Support to GFMD 2016 Chair
RT Participation
  • Rapporteur in RT 1.1 "Reducing migration costs"
  • Panelist in RT 1.2 "Connectivity and migration"
  • Team Member in RT 2.1 "Migration, diversity and harmonious societies"
  • Team Member in RT 2.2 "Protection of migrants in all situations"
  • Team Member in RT 3.1 "Migrants in situations of crises: conflict, climate change and natural disasters"
  • Team Member in RT 3.2 "Principles, institutions and processes for safe, orderly and regular migration" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended the Thematic Workshop on "Migration, Connectivity and Business" on 29 March 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Harmonious Societies" on 18 May 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Peace, Stability and Growth" on 19 July 2016 in New York, United States.
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • Pledges
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1 "Tools and Safeguards for Policy Coherence - Finding the right policy mix to balance different interests and objectives" 
  • Team Member in RT 1.2 "From Global Agenda to Implementation - National Action Plans for migration-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.1 "Moving beyond emergencies - Creating development solutions to the mutual benefit of host and origin communities and displaced persons" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 2.2 "Fostering the development impact of returning migrants" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1 "Raising the Global Talent Pool - Harnessing the Potential of the Private Sector for Global Skills Partnerships" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2 "Strengthening Cooperation - Enabling Civil Society Contributions in Migrant Integration" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

Switzerland (SDC) financial contribution USD 237,500 -90,000 earmarked for Ten-Year Review

Switzerland (HSD) financial contribution USD 100,000 earmarked for the GFMD Support Unit

RT Participation

Government Team Member in RT 1.1 "Harnessing the capital of migrants to realise their potential"

Government Team Member in RT 1.2 "Migrants' enagement with public services: from basic access to co-production"

Government Team Member in RT 2.1 "South-South mobility: trends, patterns and transferable learning"

Government Team Member in RT 2.2 "Regional mobility and policy coherence to support development"

Government Team Member in RT 3.1 "Aligning governance with contemporary drivers of migration"

Government Team Member in RT 3.2 "Beyond Remittances: leveraging the development impact and promoting the transnational engagement of diaspora and migrants"

Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
-Participated in the Thematic Workshop "Migration for Development: a roadmap to achieving the SDGs" 18-19 April 2018, Morocco
-Participated in the Thematic Workshop "Labour Migration and Skills" 3 May 2018, Geneva
-Participated in the Thematic Workshop "Children and Youth on the Move: Implementing Sustainable Solutions" 21-22 June 2018, Morocco

CTRS – Communauté Tunisienne Résidente en Suisse pour le développement (Community of Tunisian Residents in Switzerland for development)

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The CTRS project is an initiative of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Tunisia. The project interventions focus on cooperation with the Tunisian Government in line with its efforts in strengthening Tunisia’s links with its diaspora and to promoting the diaspora’s engagement in Tunisia’s national and local development.

The project aims at acknowledging the competences and skills of Tunisians living in Switzerland with view to strengthening their contribution to the socio-economic development of Tunisia in four areas:

SECO Start-up Fund

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The SECO Start-up Fund is a risk capital vehicle launched in 1997 by the Swiss Goverment. The Fund is fully owned by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and is an instrument of SECO’s Economic Cooperation and Development Division. The Fund is managed by FinanceContact Ltd., a Zürich-based private management company.

TawiPay

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TawiPay (www.tawipay.com) is a pilot money transfer project that started in 2015. Its main goal is to increase transparency in remittance channels. The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) financed the establishment of the two remittance channels, Switzerland–Serbia and Switzerland–Bosnia. The project’s objective is to enable migrants/diaspora communities to reduce the cost of sending money to their home countries.

"Albinfo.ch" – the website of the Albanian-speaking diaspora in Switzerland

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The mission of the interactive media platform albinfo.ch is twofold:

a) Active Citizenship and harmonious integration of people and ethnic Albanian populations in Switzerland

The purpose of albinfo.ch is to be used as a communication tool through free and convenient access to quality non-partisan information and services.

Urban Projects Switzerland

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Switzerland has developed a specific integration program, executed between 2008 and 2015, to encourage the development of individual urban projects. The program is being accompanied and funded by six different federal agencies (multi-stakeholder approach) and aims to develop individual projects in socially and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, where cohabitation between the local population and migrants from different parts of the world is a challenge.

«Citoyenneté: mitreden, mitgestalten, mitentscheiden» (Programme that aims to support financially innovative projects in the field of participation)

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The Federal Commission on Migration FCM is an extra parliamentary commission acting in an advisory capacity to the Swiss Federal Council (see below). With its programme «Citoyenneté: mitreden, mitgestalten, mitentscheiden» the FCM promotes a large number of initiatives and activities in the field of democracy, participation and harmonious cohabitation. The FCM sees political participation as an important factor of integration. Through its programme the FCM supports locally adapted initiatives:
- that consider migrants as partners.

Federal Commission on Migration (FCM) – a platform of participation

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The Federal Commission on Migration FCM is an advisory commission of the federal council. It aims to encourage harmonious relations between the Swiss population and migrants living in Switzerland. The FCM is involved in ongoing political debates, and sets its own thematic accents. It works out specific programmes to promote integration, elaborates publications and cooperates with partners on a regional, national and international level.

Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project

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The Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project (MC2CM) implemented by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in partnership with United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and UN Habitat, as well as UNHCR as an associate partner, aims to create a network of 10 European and Southern Mediterranean cities in order to facilitate exchange of experience among and to contribute to improved migration planning and governance in these cities.

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